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You can tell the film was originally envisioned as a comedy...

posted 8 years ago by al666940-3
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Like Dr Strangelove.

Heck the wikipedia article even says Steve Martin was Kubrick's idea for the lead at that point.

It's so full of BS through and through that I can't believe anyone can possibly take it seriously.

Layer upon layer of meaning on every frame, every light/furniture/hairstyle/mask/etc to the point it becomes utterly meaningless.

And Cruise's sleepwalking acting here can't be faulted on him (he's just not like that in any other movie), so it clearly came from Kubrick's directing him that way (like George Lucas directing of Portman and Jackson in The Phantom Menace).

And lastly, secret societies (for adults at least) are NOT like that! I know several Rotary Club and Freemason members whom tell me they WISH their meetings were anything like this.

If you want orgies, you may find them at religious cults (like La Luz del Mundo in Mexico), politician's parties ("el Gober Precioso" from Puebla), or Ivy League fraternities or secret societies (on those ones I'm pretty sure wilder things take place).

[–] Barbed_Wire_Strawberry 8 years ago

Like all Kubrick, pitch black comedy. But one of his most serious films, no doubt about that.

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[–] npagano05 8 years ago

first of all you wouldn't know anything about rituals like this. that is the point. second, the bohemian grove is a twisted little get-together that is fairly odd, including pagan worship by all the top men in the country, just without the naked ladies. but you never know, rothschilds could have parties like this. they do control the world.

[–] Monkey_Banana_Serum_Business 8 years ago

Alice Harford: And we were lying on the floor of the film set, all stoned and gaggling, and you went off to find a potty, and then all these people, all the crew and cast, came out of the Christmas trees, and they were all stoned, and laughing, just laughing, laughing, laughing. Laughing at all the pot smoke and all the Christmas trees. It was horrible, but I just laughed and laughed and smoked more pot and champagne, and then that guy I was telling you about, the little green leprechaun, climbed down from a Christmas tree, came through all the pot haze, and did a little dance, laughing and giggling all the time. It was awful, awful.